GOVT mandated Health is not reform.
Where is the integrative wellness mandate to heal the people and the US health care system in this bill?
Read the bill. The bill is very technical but try to distinguish if the sections on these pages are as wide reaching as they seem.This bill is much more than keeping your plan and your doctor. Your plan, your doctor and your hospital will be mandated by the govt to provide a govt prescribed level of care. If these items are true and become the law of the land there will be far reaching effects and consequences.
This is not real reform because there is no real reform without medical malpractice tort reform.
This is not real reform without the wellness integrative medicine mandate.
Page 29: Medical Admissions
Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get, limited appeals process
Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will allocate health benefits
Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services
Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize union retiree and community organizer health plans
Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange
Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange
Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services
Page 95: The Government will pay certain groups to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan
Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled
Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No judicial review
Page 127: Government will set doctors wages.
Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan
Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees and their families
Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll
Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
Page 167: Any individual who does not have acceptable healthcare will be taxed 2.5% of income.
Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes
Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to personal financial records
Page 203: The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax
Page 239: Bill will reduce certain physician services for Medicaid.
Page 241: Doctors of all specialties will be paid the same.
Page 253: Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment
Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
Page 272: Cancer patients mandated levels of care
Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, then penalized by the government.
Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!
Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input
Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs
Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
Page 379: Telehealth Advisory Committee
Page 425: Advance Care Planning Consult paid medical visit.
Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney
Page 425: Goverment provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
Page 427: Government mandates program that approves end-of-life treatment
Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates
Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services
Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations
Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy
Page 494: Government will cover mental health services
That is paraphrased from the first 500 pages. HR3200 is much more than Health Insurance Reform.
This is the Whitehouse reality check facts page about the stability of Health Insurance Reform.
James Tad Geiger MD